BOXING.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1923, Page 1

BOXING.

i nv Tia.i-.c.’ rai’ii—mm raiiss association.] NEW ZEALAND COl’Xril., Cl 11! ISTC’I lURCH. April fi. At the annual meeting of the ,\ew Zealand Boxing Council Mr R. W. Ah* \ illoy ( Welling!on ) was e lected Patron. It was decided to allot the New Zealand Championships at a. later meeting. In connection with a Press Association report, circulated throughout New Zealand, it was decided: “That the statement onmnatiiig from the Otago Boxing Association. In the effect that the di-qunlilicut ion of the Otago Association. commit Levs and ollieers hv the New Zealand Council, was illegal, because the persons disqualified had liei'n afforded no opportunity of submitting a defence, is, in the epinion oi the Council. frivolous, for the billowing reasons: ll I The rule quoted hv the Otago Boxing Assnciation lias no application to disqualification h,\ the Council, which body, like every other body, lias summary disciplinary powers to deal with persons or Associations guilty of debt.crate and wilful (ontenqii towards tile governing body: (Ml the letter dated Alar,li (irh. received from the 0.8. A. was the eulmimuion of a series of such deliberate contempts; (3) the only possible question a.t any healing in defence granted to the 0.8. A. would have been: Was that letter written liv the Association.' a fact which i admitted.